The hired girl, Laura Amy Schlitz
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The hired girl, Laura Amy Schlitz
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Intended audience
13-19 years
Literary Form
novels
Main title
The hired girl
Responsibility statement
Laura Amy Schlitz
Summary
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty or art on a remote farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself -- because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of -- a woman with a future
Target audience
adolescent
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Subject
Author
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